Dance Fundamentals
Year
This class is an introduction to the basic principles of contemporary and ballet practices. The fundamentals class will develop skills basic to all movement studies, such as dynamic alignment through coordination and integration of the neuro/skeletal/muscular system, strength, balance, and basic spatial and rhythmic awareness. Students may enter this yearlong course in the second semester only with permission of the instructor.
Dance courses
- African Dance
- Anatomy in Action
- Anatomy Seminar
- Ballet
- Belly Dance
- Composition A, B, and C
- Contact Improvisation
- Dance Fundamentals
- Dance History
- Dance Making
- Dance Meeting
- Dance Training Conference
- Feldenkrais: Awareness Through Movement®
- First-Year Studies in Dance
- Improvisation
- Improvisation: Embodied Awareness
- Labanotation/Repertory
- Lighting Design and Stagecraft for Dance
- Modern and Post-Modern Practice
- Music for Dancers
- Performance Project
- Performance Project, Yvonne Rainer’s “Trio A” and “Chair Pillow”
- Senior Seminar
- Teaching Conference
- Yoga
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